Victorian Culture and the Idea of the GrotesqueColin Trodd, Paul Barlow, David Amigoni Monstrous, absurd, humorous, demotic and contradictory: the Grotesque is a protean force working across different areas of Victorian life. This text examines a wide range of sources and materials in order to provide new readings of an important force that oscillates between style and concept. |
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... tion of beetle - and - spider exuviae ' . Aware that in searching the graveyards of the Cromwell archive he will become entangled within a world in which the familiar returns as the strange , Carlyle associates burial with life . Since ...
... tion of beetle - and - spider exuviae ' . Aware that in searching the graveyards of the Cromwell archive he will become entangled within a world in which the familiar returns as the strange , Carlyle associates burial with life . Since ...
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... tion . By implication , the horror of the grotesque lies for Bagehot in its tendency to imagine evolution , and in the interconnectedness of struggle , death and life which it represents . The grotesque as formulated by Bagehot , then ...
... tion . By implication , the horror of the grotesque lies for Bagehot in its tendency to imagine evolution , and in the interconnectedness of struggle , death and life which it represents . The grotesque as formulated by Bagehot , then ...
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... tion for the articulation of the union of the body and nature ; on the other hand , Watts writes that in purifying painting of violent effects the body becomes nature and begets matter . It would seem that the violence of painting as ...
... tion for the articulation of the union of the body and nature ; on the other hand , Watts writes that in purifying painting of violent effects the body becomes nature and begets matter . It would seem that the violence of painting as ...
Contents
List of contributors xi | 1 |
biography Bahktin and grotesque | 21 |
Thomas Carlyles grotesque conceits 377 | 37 |
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aberrant aesthetic alien animal articulation artist attempt Bagehot Barasch beauty becomes bodily body Boswell Boswell's Brown Caliban Caliban Upon Setebos caricature Carlyle Carlyle's Cattermole century Chesterton Civilization claims Classical complex conception conflation critical Cromwell Cromwell's Dadd Dadd's Darwin decorative depicts Dickens Dickens's discourse Dresser embody energy entangled bank Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke fantastic figures force Ford Madox Ford Madox Brown French Revolution G. F. Watts Gothic grotesque grotesque body grotto Hegel human Ibid idea ideal identified identity illustration imagery imagination John Ruskin language London majolica Marx material modern narrative natural world objects Origin painting Palissy poem Poetry Pre-Raphaelite primal reading Renaissance representation Richard Dadd Romantic Ruskin Sartor Sartor Resartus sculpture sense social species Stephen Strand magazine structure struggle sublime Teufelsdröckh theory Thomas Carlyle Thomas Woolner tion Trodd Victorian culture violence vision visual Watts Gallery Watts's Woolner Wright writing